I'm also in the market for IEMs that do an excellent job of noise isolating and sound great. But I'm down to spend more like $200-300 if that makes a difference. Although I've gotten the impression from other Head-fi threads that expensive IEMs dont' give much bang for the buck...   Any...

Hadn't thought of that route I'll look into it. Though my gut reaction is that they won't have the same kind of full range accuracy as a set of full headphones will, but maybe I'm wrong, Any good noise isolating non iem's that you'd recommend researching?

Hey everyone, I could use some help!   I want to buy a pair of headphones to use in a loud office environment and on trains. I've been told noise isolating headphones tend to be better than active noise cancellation, but I'm open to both.   I listen to all kinds of genres, my only...